Sunday, March 31, 2013

Bodhi Linux 2.3.0 Released

After almost exactly three months since our Bodhi 2.2.0 release the Bodhi team and I are happy to announce the next update release for our 2.x.y series - Bodhi Linux 2.3.0. Again because this is a minor update release people who are already using our 2.x.y branch can simply upgrade to this release via their package manager. Something else I would like to mention is that next month our 1.x.y series release will be reaching its end of life next month (meaning our repos for it will be fully shutdown) so this is a great time to upgrade to our matured 2.x.y release if you've been waiting.

For those who don't care to hear my ramblings, you can find direct download links for our ISO images on Source Forge here and then torrent downloads for the ISO images here (please help seed for a few days if you can).

As with our 2.2.0 release there are three disc downloads for this version:

Does Anonymous just live to annoy people? You sound just like Comic Book Guy on "The Simpsons" dude... "worst distro ever". Geez man, get a life. I've yet to come across a copy of Mint that ever worked right on my PCs and I've talked to others who say the same. Jeff's contribution with Bodhi is much appreciated by me, and runs like a jewel on my old IBM ThinkPad and my much newer HP laptop. Speed, desktop theme choices, cool eye-candy that Micro$oft hasn't figured out how to accomplish without gobbling up 4GB of RAM. Thanks Jeff! Well let Anonymous get back to wackin' off to dream girls on the Internet, instead of contributing to anything.

I am also on Bodhi 1.4.0 which has worked well for me - I have yet to try out the recent Bodhi 2+ releases how do I do a system level upgrade without having to uninstall my existing 1.4.0 configurations - basically I have got Ubuntu partitions beside Bodhi and this is the first time I am doing an upgrade instead of a fresh reinstall..

I am new to Bodhi and like it very much. Very fast on an old Thinkpad X30...much better than other distros...This is important for me. It is important for the future of developping nations...that the millions of old computers which cost around 100$ and still work might be used and not discarded contributing to world pollution. It allows also billions of people to be able to afford a computer.

Thanks to Bhodi, this is possible, even if this hurts your modesty...its a great gift for humanity (no jokes).

I really love Bodhi Linux and your hard work! The choice to practically have every relies of Bodhi as LTS is fantastic, very comfortable and really smart!!! Friends that got Bodhi installed by me on their computers appreciated that Bodhi as so many different themes and profiles "...is like to have many different systems on the same computer and like to change shoos every day..." (a female friend's comment ;-)". The system runs even faster now with 2.3 upgrade. Anyway... THANKS A LOT Jeff and you others in the stuff!!!! (PS: this review of Bodhi is perfect to make people curious about Bodhi and I use it to convince my friends to choose Bodhi..the rewiev starts att 0:41:39: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/30416/bodilicious-bodhi-review-las-s25e04/ )

My very first linux was Bodhi Linux, but at the time it had a bad habit of forcing logout randomly, also PCManFM crashing so easily, requiring reboot in order to use it again. Thus I switched to Lubuntu which is more stable.

Hey Jeff, I am new to linux( have only been using Ubuntu 12.04 for 6 months) but was looking for a light weight distro for my netbook. After some poking around, I've decided on Bodhi Linux - the reviews and advice I got about it are great. I am looking forward to installing it and "spreading my wings a little - linuxiwise". FYI You should know I got really good info about Bodhi from: http://tinyurl.com/c2svtyg and http://tinyurl.com/c9c59ljReally looking forward to having a light weight but powerful distro on my netbook.

Keep up the good work Jeff. Your distro (2.2) is actually the only linux distro i've tried that installs and runs (somewhat descent) on my crappy fujitsu tablet with intel oaktrail. Iĺl be happy to try out this new version.

Just want to say thxs for this great distro. I've been using it for the past year. I'm a developer and I work with different technologies. I usually install software I work with on my home server. I use Bodhi running under VirtualBox to run various environments Postgres, MySql Mongo DB and anything else I'm playing with at the moment.

Great... I knew you would do this... Now I have to ditch Slackware again - 'cos your distro is slick, fast polished and too damn sexy... Don't you realise the guilt you put people through! Speed and eye candy! Your distro should be made illegal... I'm weeping now as I burn your distro onto a disk - yes soon my beloved slackware will be gone and replaced by the sultry, sexy, fast BODHI... Whimper...

I'm a fan of Linux Lite for it's simplicity and ease of use, but after I found Bodhi Linux I fell in love with it 'cause it's also superb/fantastic/marvelous I can go on. I'm a fan of minimalism and stuff getting the job done: that's Bhodi Linux all in all :) that, and Bhodi being full of eyecandy :)))) greetings from Mexico!

Well, I would really like to see 2.3.0 on my Raspberry Pi not to far from now.Best without the nasty feature "Enlightenment SGV'd...", of course.Sorry to have to say, 2.2.0 tends towards self distruction on my Pi, soon after running the basic updates.BTW, half of the repos seem to be down / invalid, even after refreshing packet info.Same with the German translation, gone with the wind.No "install now", no download, no morror, no whatsoever else....

Bodhi Linux Rocks,After trying Jolicloud, Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Xfce and others I have to say this is the best distro I have used over the course of 5 years.Eye candy with minimalism and speed is superb with a fine balance, This will catch on fire in the community.Documentation is also superb.Well done!!!

I have just spent a week trying one distro after another -- from Zorin, to LinuxOS Full Monty, to Linux Mint, etc. None of them had what I wanted until I tried Bodhi. I LOVE IT!!! Simple, intuitive, efficient, fast and extremely pretty. I am nuts about the themes -- especially Egypt. It makes me feel like I am in a warm and cozy place, playing a favorite video game (like JewelQuest or Luxor). I couldn't be happier. Thanks!

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